CASE XIII.
January 9. A strong healthy man, aged 24 was inoculated. The eruptive complaints began on the 8th day, ran pretty high, and on the inoculated parts of each arm he felt very great and unusual pains. On the 10th a true erysipelatous swelling attacked one arm, and extended from the shoulder to the elbow; the other was also affected in the like manner, but not so considerably. In the evening of the same day he complained of great pain and soreness about his stomach, and at this time the whole surface of the skin was nearly covered with a rash and petechial spots of different colours and sizes.
What I distinguish by the name of rash, were pimples much resembling the confluent pocks, and rising above the skin; the petechial spots were interspersed, and even with the skin; some of these were small like flea-bites, others were near as large as a silver penny; some were of a very dark purple, and others of a livid colour. I observed them carefully, assisted by a good convex glass, and found the appearances singular and alarming. But as the fever was not high in proportion to such appearances, the head and back free from pain, and no great weakness attended, the event seemed to be the less doubtful. The patient drank a bason of white wine whey at going to bed, and I found him pretty well in the morning: the erysipelas began to be less fiery, and put on a darker hue; a few large distinct pustules of real small-pox soon discovered themselves, and from this time all went on very well; the arms indeed were of a livid colour for some time, but gave the patient no pain or uneasiness, so that he passed through the whole process perfectly well in every other respect.